Word: blundered
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Loyalty Test. Despite his blunder, Mitchell again proved his clout with Nixon. The President, Mitchell and Presidential Counsel John Ehrlichman went to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's house on Washington's Linnean Avenue for dinner at midweek. Mitchell bore down heavily on the point that the Haynsworth affair was being turned into a political attack on the President. Agreed on that premise, Nixon and his Attorney General decided to cast the issue as a test of presidential prerogative and party loyalty. The Senate Republicans who opposed Haynsworth and those who had strong misgivings about him were selected...
...relic, really, of a classic blunder. Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa, noted Tacitus scornfully-"Britain was conquered and then thrown away." He blamed the Emperor Domitian, who in A.D. 84 suddenly ordered his brilliant field commander Agricola to return to Rome just when a wholly Roman Britain seemed within grasp of the legions. Thereafter, year by year, the troops that had pressed nearly to the top of Scotland fell back under guerrilla attacks from the Britons. At last, in A.D. 119, Rome decided to stem the retreat and make the best of things by building a wall...
Critics argue that U.S. efforts to isolate China have merely given the Communists a unifying and strengthening hate symbol-and spurred more subversion. Some regard the U.S. presence in Viet Nam as a particular blunder, because it may have weakened Viet Nam's historical role as a buffer against Chinese expansion. There is one theory that the U.S. should have let Ho Chi Minh unify Viet Nam and emerge as an anti-Chinese Asian Tito. This may be fantasy. Still, U.S. intervention may have helped to draw the Chinese into the war. The material aid that Peking has furnished...
...within the College and within the great Harvard traditions of free discourse and necessary innovation. By quickly calling in the Cambridge po- lice with their totally predictable savagery you have shown more mindlessness and violence than the original dissenters themselves. The bitter escalation and permanent scars of this colossal blunder are now your responsibility...
Secondly--McCann's blunder points out that Ivy athletics are not as well acquainted with the eligibility rules as they are expected to be, and that something must be done to protect them from their own stupidity. It now seems necessary to take some measure to periodically, perhaps at the beginning and end of each season, remind every athlete of the rules so that something like this does not reoccur. And the head coach as well as his athletes should be held responsible to see that these eligibility rules are observed...